Sr. Vassa is the host of the Coffee with Sr. Vassa show and a professor of liturgical studies at the Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Vienna in Austria.
Since March 2, when Israeli armed forces closed all entry points for humanitarian aid into Gaza, essential supplies including food, drinking water, and medicine have been unable to reach the approximately 2.4 million Gazans who are now facing starvation.
Orthodox Christians living in the Donetsk People’s Republic were blessed with a visit from a hierarch of the Antiochian Patriarchate last week.
Georgian media referred to the play as an “offense to religious sentiments,” “licentiousness disguised as liberalism,” and “an attack on values.”
The Divine Liturgy and the enthronement of His Eminence Archbishop Atanasie were celebrated at the St. George Cathedral in London, a refurbished church building that had its first Orthodox service just last month.